{"id":635967,"date":"2026-04-28T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635967\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:47:08","slug":"ai-job-losses-set-to-grow-beyond-600000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635967\/","title":{"rendered":"AI job losses set to grow beyond 600,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner of Jobs and Skills Australia predicts that the number of jobs lost to automation and artificial intelligence will grow beyond the current forecasts of 600,000, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/workplace\/no-union-veto-labor-makes-first-move-on-ai-regulation-at-work-20260427-p5zrdm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new government-backed forum<\/a> to examine rules to protect workers meets for the first time on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/workplace\/no-union-veto-labor-makes-first-move-on-ai-regulation-at-work-20260427-p5zrdm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the new AI forum<\/a> at The Australian Financial Review Workplace Summit on Tuesday, but played down changes in the labour force market in data up to February.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commissioner of Jobs and Skills Australia predicts that the number of jobs lost to automation and artificial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-635967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}